After Ye Sanchang and the others decided to live in Ganzhou, the official immediately counted the number of people in this group who could go to the city to repair the canal, re-registered, and assigned a team leader with several people.

The officials named Ye Sanchang as the chief of the people, explaining that in the camp, he must be under the jurisdiction of the people, and was explaining the words, when he suddenly saw a person knocking on the door outside and coming in.

Ye Sanchang looked up and saw that he was an old man in his sixties, wearing cotton clothes and cloth shoes on his feet, looking very thin and thin, but his spirit was not bad at all.

"Official."

The other party came in the door, first saluted the official, and then turned his head and asked Ye Sanchang, "But from Yejia Village, Jizhou?" ”

Ye Sanchang was a little inexplicable.

"I'm from Wei County." The old man smiled and said, "It's more than twenty miles away from you, my surname is Han, and my son has picked up things to sell at your place." ”

Before Ye Sanchang could speak, several women behind him said in unison: "Is it a Korean merchant?" ”

The old man smiled and nodded.

The atmosphere in the barracks suddenly lightened.

There are people who know each other, although they may not be familiar with each other, but they can barely be regarded as fellow villagers, and it is much easier to ask what the situation is here.

Seeing that the two sides were talking, the clerk helped introduce a few words and went out.

Old man Han talked to Ye Sanchang and the people in the house.

Hearing that the people of Yejia Village were planning to go to Zhangzhou on Jiangnan East Road, he waved his hand again and again, and said: "Don't go, don't go, Zhangzhou and Jianzhou will make porridge twice a day, and they can't eat enough and can't starve to death, they are hanging for their lives, and they can't find anything to do, so they can't save a penny, so it's better to stay here!" ”

Ye Sanchang was a little surprised and asked, "There are two times of soup soup every day, this is already a great thing of heaven, isn't it good?" ”

Old man Han shook his head and said, "It's naturally excellent if you don't have a choice, but isn't there a choice?" ”

"You know about Li Jiagou, right?" After seeing Ye Sanchang and the others nodding, Old Man Han continued, "I had been working here for a month, saved some money, and then left for Jianzhou, but not long after, I ran back in disgrace, not to mention spending all the money I had saved, and I missed the locust fight, and I lost a lot of money, and I regretted that I was afraid that my intestines would be green!" ”

Seeing that everyone didn't understand, he explained: "The person who speaks in this place is a general judge, surnamed Gu, who took money and rice out to manage people, and said what is it called...... ......As long as you do things and don't starve to death or suffer from cold, you can still save money and rice, and next year the locust plague will pass, and you will go home to live your own life. ”

"Men can get grain and rice when they dig ditches, women can get grain and rice when they wash and cook in the camp, they can get grain and rice by making cowhide ties, cloth fences, and sandbags, and children can get grain and rice when they dig locust eggs in the field and burn them. Where do you go to find such a nice place? ”

Old man Han saw that everyone was suspicious, and said: "I won't say it, I won't say it, you will know it after a few days of living by yourself!" ”

He explained the rules of the camp to the people of Yejia Village, such as the number plate issued when entering the camp must be carried with you, you must register when entering and leaving the camp, you can't stay overnight when you enter the city, you have to nod your head every day in the camp, and once someone in the insurance is a traitor, the security chief will be responsible, and all the people in the insurance will be punished together.

In addition, once a person is sick, no matter how big or small the illness is, he must be moved to another barracks, where there is a doctor to treat the disease, and if someone conceals it privately, he will be punished.

At first glance, the rules in the camp sound like a lot, whether it is food, clothing, housing and transportation, everything must be managed, and even free entry and exit are not allowed, but if you carefully distinguish it, in fact, as long as you don't cause trouble, it actually doesn't have much impact on the people who live in.

Ye Sanchang didn't feel harsh, turned around and said to everyone in the clan: "If anyone commits a crime, don't use much words, let's leave the clan by yourself, our Ye family village can't tolerate such a person who affects Zhuangzi!" ”

That night, the villagers of Yejiazhuang stayed here, received the day's grain and rice, lit the fire to cook, and settled down.

Repairing the canal is actually a hard work, the strong men were tied to the construction site during the day, spent a day of work, and returned to the camp at night, no matter how fierce they were, the remaining strength was only enough to scold people.

Since ancient times, most of the troublemakers are young and middle-aged, especially those men with strong blood, who disagree with each other, arouse their temperament to fight, pick quarrels and provoke trouble, or have lazy and idle people to steal and commit crimes, such as rural villages, the most chaotic thing in the year is after the autumn harvest, a very important reason is that the farm has passed, and the strong men are idle and have nothing to do.

Many times, disasters are caused by the word "idle".

Ganzhou pressed all the people in the construction site like this, and most of the troubles of the displaced people were immediately reduced.

As more and more people fled here, more and more people lived in the barracks, but most of the strong men dug ditches underground, and the women were assigned all kinds of things, even children, and they also had their own arrangements, and the purpose was one, and they could not be idle.

Relying on the rotation of patrols, soldiers, and brave men day and night, the system of security chiefs in the barracks, and various rules, the Ganzhou Prefecture almost strictly and orderly controlled this group of homeless people, even at the end of the year, when the number of people in the barracks rose to 30,000, there were only a dozen scattered fights and disturbances.

At the same time, the ditches in the city have gradually taken shape.

On this day, Gu Yanzhang dealt with the affairs in the yamen, went to inspect the progress of digging the ditch as usual, and went to the barracks outside the city to inspect it, and when he returned to the back office, it was almost three o'clock.

Ji Qingling sat at the table and wrote, she was very engrossed, until she heard the autumn moon salute, she noticed that someone had come in, she hurriedly put down the pen, turned her head to look, but saw Gu Yanzhang taking off the cloak and hat on her body and handing it to Rosin Xiang.

"It's snowing outside?" She asked, surprised.

Gu Yanzhang shook the small snow particles on his body, and nodded at the same time: "It's falling, it's not big, it's not big, it's better to say that it's snow, it's better to say that it's rain with ice." ”

Ganzhou does not have the habit of burning earth dragons, and only charcoal is burned in the house.

Ji Qingling stepped on the lid of the charcoal basin under his feet, and his body was also tightly dressed, but he didn't feel too cold, and when he heard Gu Yanzhang say it at this moment, he stepped on his shoes again, stood up, and pushed the window in front of him open.

With a "squeak", as the wooden window opened, the cold wind poured in.

It was dark outside, and I couldn't see anything clearly.

She shuddered and closed the wooden window again.